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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 07:35 AM

    Sound and fury signifying nothing-- Bush was and is a failure

    You conservatives realize you can scream into the wind all you want, it's not going to change a thing right?

    Bush inherited a recession? Oh really? Will you please STOP blaming 9/11 for causing the first recession of Dubya's Administration then? You Republicans need to make up your mind on this one you can't have it both ways: Either he inherited the recession (from Bill Clinton of course who you love to blame for everything) or 9/11 caused it. It can't be both.

    9/11 not his fault? Well no. But any criminal court would CERTAINLY charge Condolezza Rice if not George W. Bush for criminal negligence in an instant for ignoring a memo entitled "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States" and then use, as a series of reasons it was: a) at the bottom of the stack of memos, b) not the MOST important memo then-National Security Advisor Rice received and c) simply didn't seem that urgent.

    Two more words for you morons: HURRICANE KATRINA. If you think that standing by and watching a whole city drown (and no, no one is trying to blame him for the flood and you know it, you just choose to be ignorant, we ARE blaming him for the response) is going to somehow be vindicated by history you're on even more coke than your hero Georgey Boy was in the '80s.

    Not to mention the next Great Recession Dumbya has given us.

    Look if you Rethug cretins want to try and rehabilitate a Bush's reputation why not start with BUSH I who had the sense to: a) stop before actually ousting Saddam Hussein who was a bulwark against Iran and a number of other nutty Islamic militant regimes and organizations (he HATED and acted AGAINST Al Qaeda) , b) get United Nation support for the effort he did undertake, c) be tough on BOTH Palestine and Israel and d) actually take tough, unpopular measures to begin fixing the economy whether than ruining int further a la his dumbass son.

    George W. Bush is a miserable failure. And you helped put him there. Live with it losers.

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